Download or read book Companion to Historiography written by Michael Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-27 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed by a distinguished panel of academics, each essay conveys in direct, jargon-free language a genuinely international, wide-angled view of the ideas, traditions and institutions that lie behind the contemporary urgency of world history.

Download or read book The Sense of Decadence in Nineteenth Century France written by Koenraad W. Swart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was the best oftimes. It was the worst oftimes. " The famous open ing sentence ofCharles Dickens' Tale oJ Two Cities can serve as a motto to characterize the mixture of optimism and pessimism with which a large number of nineteenth-century intellectuals viewed the con dition of their age. It is nowadays hardly necessary to accentuate the optimistic elements in the nineteenth-century view of history; many recent historians have sharply contrasted the complacency and the great expectations of the past century with the fears and anxieties rampant in our own age. It is often too readily assumed that a hundred years ago all leading thinkers as weil as the educated public were addicted to the cult of progress and ignored or minimized those trends of their times that paved the way for the catastrophes of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century the intoxicating triumphs of modern science undeniably induced the general public to believe that pro gress was not an accident but a necessity and that evil and immo rality would gradually disappear. Yet fears, misgivings, and anxieties were not as exceptional in the nineteenth century as is often imagined. Such feelings were not restricted to a few dissenting philosophers and poets like Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, 'Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche.

Download or read book The Pope s Body written by Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.

Download or read book The Catholic Encyclopedia Fathers Gregory written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Histoire de la civilisation ancienne written by Charles Seignobos and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy written by Charles Fourier and published by Imagining Science. This book was released on 2011 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admired by Marx and Engels, the Surrealists, the Situationists, Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes, the great utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) has been many things to many people: a proto-feminist, a Surrealist ancestor, a cantankerous cosmologist, a social critic and humorist and to this day one of France's truest visionary thinkers. He was also, as this volume demonstrates, a maniacal taxonomist. In this zoological guidebook to cuckoldry and commerce, Fourier offers a caustic critique of the bankruptcy of marriage and the prostitution of the economy, and the hypocrisies of a civilization that over-regulates sexual congress while allowing the financial sector to screw over the public. Gathered together here for the first time are Fourier's two "Hierarchies" --humorously regimented parades of civilization's cheaters and cheated-on in the domestic sphere of sex and the economic sphere of buying and selling commodities. "The Hierarchy of Cuckoldry" --translated into English for the first time--presents 72 species of the male cuckold, ranging from such "common class" cases as the Health-Conscious Cuckolds, to the short-horned Sympathetic, Optimist and Mystical Cuckolds, and the Long-horned varieties of the Irate, Disgraced and Posthumous Cuckolds. For Fourier, these amount to 72 manifestations of women's "secret insurrection" against the institution of marriage. "The Hierarchy of Bankruptcy" presents 36 species of the fraudulent bankrupt: a range of Light, Grandiose, and Contemptible shades of financial manipulators who force creditors, cities and even nations to bail them out of ultimately profitable bankruptcies. In these attacks on the morality of monogamy and the perils of laissez-faire capitalism, Fourier's "Hierarchies" resonate uncannily with our contemporary world.

Download or read book Myth and Law Among the Indo Europeans written by Jaan Puhvel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Result Of The Ongoing Activity Centered On Discovering And Understanding The Mythic, Religions, Social And Legal Underpinnings Of The Ancient Indo-European-Speaking Continuum In Terms Of Their Oldest Or Most Archaic Manifestations. Without Dustcover, Spine Slightly Damaged At Bottom, Ex-Libris, Usual Library Stamps And Markings, Text Absolutely Clean, Condition Good.

Download or read book Histoire ancienne narrative et descriptive de l Orient et de la Gr ce written by Charles Seignobos and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Greek Fathers written by Adrian Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe written by Conal Condren and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy appears in a fresh light, not as reason's progressive discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series of unreconciled disputes over the proper way to conduct oneself as a philosopher. By shifting focus from the philosopher as proxy for the universal subject of reason to the philosopher as a special persona arising from rival forms of self-cultivation, philosophy is approached in terms of the social office and intellectual deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a definite moral physiognomy and institutional setting. In so doing, this collection of essays by leading figures in the fields of both philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher, and to the institutional and larger political and religious contexts in which such disputes took place.

Download or read book The Enlightenment written by Dan Edelstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise, bold, and innovative book, Dan Edelstein offers us an original account of the Enlightenment. It convincingly argues that the Enlightenment is above all a narrative about social and cultural changes and that its origins can be found in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. Therefore, by reconsidering the importance of the French esprit philosophique in the Euroean Enlightenment, this book will be of considerable importance for every scholar and student interested in this period.

Download or read book Histoire ancienne de l orient et de la Gr ce written by Charles Seignobos and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Organizing Enlightenment written by Chad Wellmon and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how the research university emerged in the early nineteenth century at a similarly fraught moment of cultural anxiety about revolutionary technologies and their disruptive effects on established institutions of knowledge.

Download or read book Pr cis d Histoire Tome I L antiquit Gr co latine La France de 496 1328 written by Dominicaines Enseignantes Saint-Pré (Brignoles) and published by Nouvelles Editions Latines. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’antiquité Gréco-Latine La France de 496 à 1328 SOMMAIRE Préface Chapitre 1: Les pourtours de la Méditerranée, berceau de la civilisation occidentale Chapitre 2: Un des premiers pays civilisés: l’Égypte RÉSUMÉ D’HISTOIRE GRECQUE Chapitre 3: La Grèce Chapitre 4: Les cités grecques et la lutte contre les Perses Chapitre 5: Grandeur et rapide décadence d’Athènes Chapitre 6: La vie quotidienne à Athènes Chapitre 7: La religion grecque Chapitre 8: Différences et rivalités entre Sparte et Athènes Chapitre 9: Les conquêtes de Philippe de Macédoine et de son fils Alexandre RÉSUMÉ D’HISTOIRE ROMAINE Chapitre 10: L’origine et les premiers siècles de Rome Chapitre 11: Rome conquiert l’Italie et affronte Carthage Chapitre 12: Les guerres puniques Chapitre 13: Les conquêtes de Rome au IIe et au Ier siècle avant Jésus-Christ Chapitre 14: La vie à Rome du IIIe au Ier siècle avant Jésus-Christ Chapitre 15: Les luttes politiques entre les conquérants aboutissent à l’Empire Chapitre 16: L’établissement de l’Empire et les premiers empereurs Chapitre 17: Le siècle d’or de l’Empire Chapitre 18: Les derniers siècles de l’Empire romain: IIIe, IVe et Ve siècle après Jésus-Christ Chapitre 19: La fin de l’Empire romain HISTOIRE DE FRANCE: de 496 à 1328 1ère partie: Les Mérovingiens et les Carolingiens (476-987) Chapitre 20: Clovis devient le roi des Francs et se convertit au Catholicisme: il est à l’origine de la 1ère dynastie Chapitre 21: Le règne de Clovis et le partage du royaume à sa mort Chapitre 22: Les Mérovingiens au VIe et au VIIe siècle Naissance de l’Islam Chapitre 23: Avènement de la 2e dynastie: les Carolingiens Chapitre 24: L’œuvre de Charlemagne Chapitre 25: Les successeurs de Charlemagne Chapitre 26: La féodalité Chapitre 27: La vie religieuse du haut Moyen Âge 2ème partie: Les Capétiens directs jusqu’à la Guerre de Cent Ans (987-1328) Chapitre 28: Avènement de la 3ème dynastie: les Capétiens Chapitre 29: Le premier roi dont la puissance s’affirme: Louis VI le Gros (1108-1137) Son fils Louis VII le Jeune (1137-1180) Chapitre 30: Philippe Auguste (1180-1223) et la bataille de Bouvines (1214) Chapitre 31: Saint Louis (1226-1270) Chapitre 32: La chevalerie Chapitre 33: Les croisades et le danger musulman Chapitre 34: L’apogée du Moyen Âge au XIIe et au XIIIe siècle Chapitre 35: L’essor de la vie monastique sous les Capétiens directs Chapitre 36: Philippe III le Hardi (1270-1285) Philippe IV le Bel (1285-1314) et le rôle des « légistes » Chapitre 37: Les derniers Capétiens directs Tableaux généalogiques simplifiés Les Mérovingiens Les Carolingiens Les Capétiens directs

Download or read book Sociology of the Renaissance written by Elizabeth Freidheim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work marks the culmination of a definite stage in the socio-economic historiography from the late Middle Ages to the rise of the haute bourgeoisie in the early Renaissance. Here Alfred von Martin attempts to discover and define the spirit or essence of the Renaissance, and with it the spirit of early capitalism as it arose in Florence.His analysis focuses on the capitalist haute bourgeois who represented the economically, politically, and culturally dominant class of the Renaissance. As he shows, eventually its decline brings about a new stasis in the aristocratization of the great bourgeoisie as well as the rise of despotism in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.The shift from an agricultural to a commercial economy was unquestionably one of the essential elements in the transition from medieval to Renaissance civilization. This book's republication is a welcome development and will make this classic accessible again to scholars of the Renaissance and Renaissance humanism. In addition to its new introduction, it also includes a bibliography of von Martin's extensive writings.

Download or read book Impolite Learning written by Anne Goldgar and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of a social and cultural community in which scholars were bound by a host of unwritten codes, highlighting the importance of social interaction for the intellectual world in the period immediately preceding the Enlightenment.

Download or read book European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914 written by R. D. Anderson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914 is an authoritative and unique work. Though patronized by a social elite, universities before 1914 were not ivory towers, but reflected the political and social conflicts of their day. Anderson combines chapters on national university systems (including Britain) with a searching and far-ranging discussion of more general themes. The book is an essential contribution both to modern European history, and to understanding the background of contemporary university problems.